Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Socialites of Manhattan's swank Brook Club tendered a test dinner last week to one of the chief arbiters of French wine elegance. M. le Baron Marcel Fouquier is president of the Academic des Oenophiles (wine lovers) which yields in dignity and discrimination not even to the Academic Francaise...
...Brook Club gave M. le Baron no wine from U. S. vineyards. "I have not tasted any yet, and I am sorry!" he exclaimed. "As a Frenchman I know that it must be California wines which will give your common people their first taste for something better than their beer, their whiskey or their...
...post-Prohibition repast equal to any that Paris' No. 1 Oenophile can get at home. Next day, after mature reflection, M. le Baron positively affirmed that this had been done: "Never in Paris itself have I had a nobler meal. The whole perfect, even to the condition of each wine! And now, after so memorable an evening, I must really taste some California wines...
...been exhausted before publication date, but many more looked forward to drinking in another recital of carefully muted chamber music. Many a reverent reader, mindful of the Olympian thunders her Fatal Interview brought down,* doffed his hat before he tiptoed into the audience. But plain readers soon discovered that Wine from these Grapes was a good but by no means a great performance...
...State ended Milk Month, during which ministers in many a city were urged by local milk committees to help publicize milk by preaching sermons on it. Suggested to the ministers were such texts as: And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop new wine and the hills shall flow with milk-Joel, 3:18; His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk and fitly set-Song of Solomon, 5:12. The latter, the ministers were informed, means that "Back of the Oriental luxury of this language...